Here's some more on George Will in light of his startingly dishonest column on Jim Webb yesterday. Steve Benen of The Carpetbagger Report reminds us of another of Will's displays of journalistic hocus-pocus, in which Will rearranged a transcript of remarks by Wes Clark to make it reflect less favorably on him. Benen's catch is definitely worth a read in retrospect, reminding us as it does that the Webb column is hardly the first time Will has indulged in slippery distortions, if not outright dishonesty, to smear Dems. Benen adds of the Webb episode that "columnists have been disciplined for less."

Will, meanwhile, can blithely rearrange people's quotes, or simply remove them if they're inconvenient, secure in the knowledge that it will be shrugged off as "part of the game." On that score, our letter to Post ombud Deborah Howell about Will's latest is here.